120 ANNEXURE P-7 Surveillance - Is there a need for judicial oversight? Wed, 09/25/2013 - 09:40 DIGITAL PRIVACY Recent reports released by Yahoo and Facebook on requests for user data sent by Governments paint a grim picture of surveillance. The transparency report released by Yahoo on September 6, 2013 shows that the Indian Government sent 1,490 requests asking information about 2,704 user accounts. On August 27, 2013, Facebook released its first Global Government Requests Report. The figures revealed in the report accord India, the dubious distinction of being the country with the highest number of user data requests after the United States. The United States Government submitted 11,00012,000 requests to Facebook demanding information about 20,0021,000 users while the Indian Government submitted 3,245 requests demanding information of 4,144 users during the period from January to June 2013.